It may encourage you to know that I do have critics. They don't typically show their faces on my blog itself (and I haven't moderated any comments away except some insane unrelated treatise on vaccines and when one single commenter was being a bit too enthusiastic about curcumin to the tune of 10 comments at a time, and all the viagra and birds nest soup spam ("Katherine Woo" and "alan," I'm...
Kamis, 31 Maret 2011
So I refurbished another post:Depression - Caused by Inflammation - Thus Like Other Diseases of CivilizationSuch a staid title! Oh well. This is serious busine...
Selasa, 29 Maret 2011
What is patently obvious to anyone who has spent more than 10 minutes studying nutrition literature is that any truly effective nutritional intervention will have to be pleiotropic. That is, muti-faceted. Adding one isolated mineral or vitamin or spice or whatever on its own is rarely going to hold up to population-wide study, or, as Kurt Harris would say, "no magic foods." The probable...
Minggu, 27 Maret 2011
Happy Sunday! I uploaded/updated another post on Psychology Today. And here's a song, too, by Nancy Sinatra.Bang BangHow Stress Makes You Sick and Sad (literal titles work well)Here's one more song, good for a Sunday. Jeff Buckely Hallelujah.And one more. For good luck. Mad World (the Donnie Darko remix)Shucks. Can't really link a Jeff Buckley song without...
Sabtu, 26 Maret 2011
Several folks (Julianne and Chris Kresser come to mind) tweeted about this new paper last week, and it really is a doozy. "Exposure to a social stressor alters the structure of the intestinal microbiota: Implications for stressor-induced immunomodulation." The associated editorial is worth a read as well, if you have access. Also, the journal it comes from, "Brain, Behavior,...
Kamis, 24 Maret 2011
Refurbished Semi-Starvation post over at Psychology Today, with added squirrel:Dieting Can Make you Lose Your MindAs for this blog (which for the forseeable future will have the new cutting edge stuff), I have a big stack of papers to read, and some grouchy ipad posts to write for the weeke...
Senin, 21 Maret 2011
I've combined three previous posts into a cogent and magnificent piece over on my blog at Psychology Today:Low Cholesterol and Suicide- Posted using BlogPress from my iPh...
Minggu, 20 Maret 2011
I did get a chance to read over some interesting papers yesterday. Unfortunately, my home computer stopped working yesterday while I was on twitter. That's probably the universe telling me something. Our interventions seem unable to bring the dead PC back to life. So I'm a little cranky. Also, since it is more difficult to link things on the iPad, it will probably take me a few days to link the...
Jumat, 18 Maret 2011
I have a tax appointment this morning, two birthday parties this weekend, and an inability to sit for extended periods due to a mishap on the stairs yesterday involving toddlers and mukluk socks. Everyone is fine except my tailbone. Excuses, excuses - I likely won't have a true new blog post out this weekend. Instead, here are some goodies from the archives:Secrets of the SynapseZinc,...
Rabu, 16 Maret 2011
Minggu, 13 Maret 2011
If you ask the experts, they will tell you that approximately 9% of children in the US have the cluster of symptoms defined as ADHD. 5-16% of kids will have what is called "Oppositional Defiant Disorder," where kids deliberately break the rules, are quick to anger, and will often be sensitive and vindictive, among other problems. Perhaps not surprisingly, these disorders overlap, with...
Sabtu, 12 Maret 2011
Recently I have been invited to join the regular stable of writers who blog at Psychology Today. I'm very happy to go forward and represent, to some extent, the paleolithic community with this wider exposure. I'm also pleased by the intriguing work done by the other bloggers there. Fortunately, I have complete editorial control over the content of the articles. I will begin...
Kamis, 10 Maret 2011
Ugh. I have a cold. I had been invincible, contracting H1N1 (most probably) with the only symptoms being a headache, missing norovirus gastroenteritis over Christmas, seeing cold after cold take down others while I had a mere sniffle and a bit of a scratchy throat that resolved in a day. Until the oldest went to pre-school and brought home a doozy, with sniffles keeping her awake, then her sister,...
Senin, 07 Maret 2011
I would say most cardiologists still believe that for cholesterol, the lower the better. In the diet, in the serum, in the liver, in the arteries. However, it is safe to say that super low cholesterol is not better in the brain. The dry weight of the brain is 60% fat and cholesterol is vital to synaptic function. Low cholesterol seems to be associated with Alzheimer's, suicide, and violent...
Sabtu, 05 Maret 2011
Jen linked another Maes leaky gut paper from the comments in the Depression and a Leaky Gut post. This paper is a case report of a 13 y/o girl with chronic fatigue syndrome. In January 2005, the girl had a sore throat. Thereafter she began to have progressive weakness, increasing fatigue, unrestorative sleep, abdominal bloating, headaches,...
Kamis, 03 Maret 2011
East of Eden has been on my mind. At the heart of that novel is chapter 34, two pages, 11 paragraphs. The lesson of the entire masterpiece is here.I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one, that has frightened and inspired us, so that we live in a Pearl White serial of continuing thought and wonder. Humans are caught - in their...
Rabu, 02 Maret 2011
In the comments of the Depression and Leaky Gut post, Tony Mach mentioned an interesting amino acid called N-acetylcysteine (we'll shorten that to NAC) and put up a link to the Wikipedia page "describing its wonders." I'd heard of NAC before, of course, as the punishment/savior for people who show up in the ER having overdosed on that most disgusting of things to overdose on, acetaminophen (Tylenol,...
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